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Updated: May 21, 2025
I could scarcely refrain from throwing it into the fire another victim, thought I oh, the curse of an English education! By and by, down came the mother and the sister, then Clutterbuck, and lastly, bedizened out with gewgaws and trumpery the wife.
It was Mr. Clutterbuck. "So you are Dr. Harden!" he exclaimed. He stopped and looked confused. "Yes," I said; "please sit down, Mr. Clutterbuck." He did so, twisting his hat awkwardly and gazing at the floor. "I owe you an apology," he said at length. "I came to consult you, little expecting to find that it was you after all that you were Dr. Harden.
"He was a man that any one might well be proud to know. Commander-in-chief said to me once, 'Clutterbuck, says he, 'I don't know what we'd do if we had a European war. I've no one I can rely on, says he. 'There's Scully, says I. 'Right, says he, 'Scully would be our man. He was terribly cut up when this occurred.
Of a surety he rivals the Titans, if he is only a seven months' child!" "Now, truly, my worthy friend," answered Clutterbuck, "you indulge in jesting! The boy is my nephew, a goodly child, and a painstaking. I hope he will thrive at our gentle mother. He goes to Trinity next October.
As you are now so well known to the clerks, they will not require your name in future. Hobhouse, Clutterbuck and Co. bankers, of Bath, because they would not pay you their notes in cash; you having refused to take Bank of England notes in exchange. We know that you are an enemy to our paper system; but we recognise you as an honourable and open enemy."
My eloquence had its effect; all dinner time, Mrs. Clutterbuck treated her husband with even striking consideration: my words seemed to have gifted her with a new light, and to have wrought a thorough transformation in her view of her lord and master's character.
"Major Tobias Clutterbuck," cried the sharp, creaky voice of Gilray as if in answer to the question, and the little clerk, who had knocked once or twice unnoticed, opened the door and ushered in the old Campaigner. It may be well to remark, that this and succeeding incidents occurred in the old Crown Colony days, before the diamond legislation was as strict as it has since become.
Tobias Clutterbuck may be ould, Miss Harston, but his heart will niver grow so hardened but that it will milt at the thought of beauty in distriss." With this beautiful sentiment the major placed his fat hand over his heart, and bowed again, even more gracefully than before.
'Look here, Clutterbuck, he said at last, looking mighty white about the gills, 'this ship that we are in is more than half mine. I am chief owner. I'll stake me share of the ship on the next game against all that I have lost. 'Done! said I, and shuffled, cut, and dealt. He went four on three highest trumps, and an ace, and I held four small trumps.
How I got it is neither here nor there, but I have a little nist-egg in the bank and see me way to increasing it. You tell me your money's gone, and I tell you I've enough for two; so say the word, acushla, and it's done." "What! without the money?" "Damn the money?" exclaimed Major Tobias Clutterbuck, and put his arm for the second time around his companion. This time it remained there.
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